NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.
@gwynnion
Chapter five in this book is heavily related to the Voyager. I like to drop this link when the Voyager recovers from a malfunction.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19880069935/downloads/19880069935_Optimized.pdf
@gwynnion
I have watched the voyagers with tears in my eyes ever since they launched. These intrepid little craft blow my mind and about bring me to tears every time I think about them. To have circled planets and then proceeded to go where no human has gone before and show us the way. Wow.
They make me so proud to be a human.
@gwynnion actually first computers were quite monstrous, but yes, a number of nonsense significanly rose since that times.